Zhou Ye zye@us.oracle.com
Ankur Sharma asharma@us.oracle.com
Providing internet access to CORBA systems from Java requires two components :
In the absence of a standard stub mapping, portable and ORB independant application development is not possible. A Java applet may potentially be downloaded by any browser running on any platform, but if the specific ORB implementation is not available on that particular browser and the Java stub generated is tied to a specific ORB, it may not be possible to run the downloaded applet. Given the high mobility of web content and applications, we feel that a standard Java stub mapping is an important component of a system providing access to web clients. We have designed such a java stub mapping and our Java lanuage mapping mentioned above also takes this into account.
Enabling a standard Java language mapping and a Java stub mapping will also facilitate interoperability and application portability throughout the web. Compilers and other tools provided by various vendors can also be used interchangeably regardless of the specific ORB.